On a stretch of road in Carinthia where the gradient, wind and weather all aligned, Austrian mountain-bike professional Stefan Müller rode his e-bike on its rear wheel for 1,022 metres without a single pedal stroke. The ride, completed on 16 September 2026, is the first manual ever reported beyond the 1,000‑metre barrier and lands well past the previous mark of 823.60 metres.
A rare alignment in Carinthia
The manual — a wheelie propelled only by body movement and balance, never by the pedals — demands extraordinary control.
“Everything just came together — the road, the right gradient, wind and weather,” he told the regional outlet 5 Minuten.
A street‑rider’s record, now taken on an e‑bike
The officially ratified Guinness World Records title for the longest bicycle manual by a male rider has belonged to Poland’s Dawid Piwowarczyk since 25 July 2024. His distance of 823.60 metres was set in Cracow and measured to the nearest centimetre. Piwowarczyk is a street cyclist of more than two decades; the manual is a trick from his home discipline.
Müller coming from a mountain‑bike background, and using an e‑bike, marks a sharp shift. The jump is large enough — 198.40 metres beyond the ratified record — that the Carinthian daily’s headline called it a probable world record, hedging with the word “wohl”.
The ride turns on balance held under fatigue, body position kept over hundreds of metres without the crutch of a pedal stroke. Müller’s line of 1,022 metres shows he held the sweet spot longer than anyone before him, even if ratification has yet to follow.
For a regional professional who tackles the discipline daily, the number now sits as a quiet marker of what one road in Carinthia delivered.
